every once in a while in my life I encounter a computer or Electronics
issue that's completely inexplicable for example in the early 2000s I had a
machine that for some reason didn't
require the Warcraft 3 disc to be loaded in the optical drive I wasn't using an
OCD crack and the issue I'm not going to
call it a problem because it was very convenient the issue persisted over
multiple reformats and reinstallations of the game only to go away when I
upgraded the computer computer but the point of this video is not for me to
tell old stories from a million years ago because I'm old the point of this
video is that thanks to the power of video recording and the internet I can
now share with you these experiences
welcome to episode one of what we're calling haunted Hardware
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video description so you're sitting there at home thinking lus there's
nothing haunted about running doom on a computer it's supposed to work that way
the game is scary we not scary whatever the case may be no no the haunted thing
about what you're looking at right now is this fraps counter up here in the top
left corner that's not supposed to be there now if I was running an open GL
mode that would be fine but look at this
settings Advanced
Vulcan for contrast this is how it is
supposed to work this is my normal desktop test bench with a GTX 1080 we go
into settings Advanced openg 4.5 boom
FPS counters working now if we switch to Vulcan Doom will
restart and we'll fast forward through this if it drags out for too long for
you guys and my camera person will hold kind of still but really you can already
see okay we are switched over to Vulcan my FPS counter is gone fraps is still
very much loaded in the system tray it just doesn't work that way fraps isn't
designed to work with either of the new lower level apis that is Vulcan or
directx12 that what you just saw there is the
normal expected Behavior so it's at this stage in any troubleshooting process
that the good old sanity check comes in so you go into your settings you go this
is a really cool feature of Doom it's like it's almost like it's made by
people who care you go show performance metrics and you go okay is it actually
running
Vulcan yes it would appear so okay but if we were running in
borderless Window mode it is possible
that fraps could overlay itself in some
way so what we need to do is go into the
console and this is another great thing that Doom has and good games should all
have and we can have a look at what commands we have and we go okay vid
restart okay you saw that black flash no
the game is running 1920 x 1080 full screen so the next logical step let's
check our software revisions maybe NVIDIA has a driver or Doom released an
update or uh the fraps has a new version
something of which enables this functionality so NVIDIA driver 21213
7270 got it Doom build 127 2992 and
fraps is version 3.5.9 let's go double check all that
stuff over on the desktop here we've got that same driver revision it's great
even though we're running a different graphics card they're the same architecture running the same
driver Doom is running that exact same build which makes sense because I've
always got auto update enabled in Steam and finally fraps is running that same
3.5.9 in fact here's a fun fact I didn't realize this until I was working on this
video fraps hasn't even been updated since 26th of February 2013 so for them
to have introduced a patch that enables this functionality seems very very
unlikely considering the last patch fixed AO desktop and directex 10 games
so then it's at this point that we start getting into the troubleshooting steps
that take a little bit longer we're going to do a full reinstall of our
driver as well as Doom downloading a
completely fresh copy of the game off of steam just in case there is some weird
corruption that's not allowing it to properly launch in Vulcan mode for
example to get rid of our videoar driver we're going to be using ddu I'm not
going to go through all the steps in you know Exquisite detail but basically you
reboot in safe mood you run ddu you download a fresh copy of the drivers off
NVIDIA and install that and try
again and we're back in game now with
fresh drivers fresh copy of the game and
exactly the same behavior we saw last
time so at this point it's time to take
it to the next level we are going to do a fresh format of this PC we're going to
go back to bone stock then we're going to update the
drivers then we're going to install the game and see if it persists now I
suspect it's running in open GL mode out
of the box it's not something you can configure
when you launch the game for Doom so everything here looks hunky dory totally
normal open GL 4.5 we have
CS okay
Advanced Vulcan
yes 1100 frames per
second haunted right
haunted haunted computer ven
1.0.13 frame rate counter
working even though it shouldn't and the game is loading now I
did observe that openg Vulcan regardless
of what API it was running performance did look a little bit low there so I'm
going to remove another variable I'm going to disable the onboard Graphics
here disabling this will cause it to stop functioning you think that's good I
would sure hope so and what I'm going to do now is to determine once and for all
whether we have magic fraps or broken
game I am actually going to do our
Benchmark run with each different
readout here and see if they perform
differently okay so settings we're going
to Triple confirm them blah blah blah blah blah full
screen blah blah BL blah Advanced Vulcan
definitely everything is wow wow
Windows okay I'm not going to run the whole Benchmark because quite frankly
the difference between Vulcan and openg GL at this resolution on this Hardware
should be pretty much immediately noticeable so we're getting about 70
frames per second talking to this guy
respectfully um so that's fine let's go
ahead settings advanced open
G
restart okay here we
go no way okay hold on just a second
here what the sh just happened okay so at this point
in the video I was kind of expecting the conclusion to be haha it's just running
open GL because the game isn't launching in Vulcan
mode but what we appear to have gotten
instead and I don't have another 1060
equipped laptop to compare against unfortunately but we what we what we
appear to have gotten instead is magical fraps running on a
magical machine magically working on Vulcan even though there is absolutely
no way and I'm sure the fraps developers would be happy to call me up and tell me this personally there's absolutely no
way that this is working so this is the kind of that I go through all I wanted
all I wanted was a performance
comparison between this laptop and this
laptop for my review of this
laptop this is what I'm dealing with so
if you were wondering when you saw the review of this laptop which will perhaps
come out before this video why there was no Vulcan Doom testing now you know I
don't know blaming this laptop in fact I probably won't even mention it because
it's probably not this laptop's fault because I've seen this kind of
before I'm just happy that for once I got to share the experience with you
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